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Main definitions of pug in English

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noun

1A dog of a dwarf breed like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face.

‘Elsewhere in the house a rather ugly pug dog, a Masonic symbol, is painted on a ceiling.’

‘We should cherish these glimpses of her as it won't be long before she goes to ground again, squirrelling away in her Manhattan apartment or the Virginia bolt-hole she shares with two pugs and a Boston terrier.’

‘How did wolves transform into today's greyhounds, pugs, and Yorkies?’

‘Raven had long, greasy mouse-brown hair and a nose like a pug.’

‘Maybe my experience with bringing other dogs into the house with our first pug will help you.’

‘The pug's miniaturized ‘bulldog’ lineaments rendered it not just fashionable in the late eighteenth century but - at a period of war with France - patriotic.’

‘The woman goes inside and comes back with a pug dog wheezing on the end of a red leash.’

‘We kept a pug and a little Pomeranian and a Maltese, and gave my parents a little poodle.’

‘As secretary of the Pugalug Club, a group almost 500 strong throughout Ontario devoted to the health and well being of the pug dog breed, I can't help but feel a need to respond to your article, ‘Good, bad and Pugly’.’

‘As much as they enjoy walking Jack Russells and pugs through a neighbourhood with a taste of history, they also realize that this flavour is a commodity which inflates the value of their condos.’

‘Others claim the bulldog resulted from the crosses between mastiffs and Dutch pug dogs.’

‘Crossing a pug with a Pekingese, for example, could produce disastrous consequences.’

‘Now Charles has a potential doppelgänger on this side of the Atlantic: a cute, mischievous little pug dog named Pugly.’

‘The pug was the Dutch national dog, and soon it became a national sensation in England.’

‘While the children were delighted by the presence of the smaller breeds like pugs and miniature pinscher, the body language of the grown-ups revealed a liking towards bigger breeds like great Danes and German shepherds.’

‘With such strong words, it's no wonder that the mascot on the group's website is a mischievous little pug dog who's ready to lay down the law.’